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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Nitish Srivastava, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Hanlin Goh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving three-dimensional geometric elements as an input. The method also includes initializing geometric capsules by assigning one of the three-dimensional geometric elements to each of the geometric capsules and setting initial values for a pose component and a feature component of each of the geometric capsules. The method also includes one or more iterations of a routing procedure that includes assigning an additional one of the three-dimensional geometric elements to a respective one of the geometric capsules, based on correspondence of the additional one of the three-dimensional geometric elements to a surface defined based on the feature component of the respective one of the geometric capsules, and updating the feature component of each of the geometric capsules based on the three-dimensional geometric elements assigned to each of the geometric capsules. The method also includes outputting the geometric capsules including encoded three-dimensional data.